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MWL Magazine January 2020 Together, we remember. Together, we will never forget” — The American Jewish Committee, marking the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz on January 27, 2020. About the MWL The Muslim World League is a non-governmental international organization based in Makkah. Its goal is to clarify the true message of Islam. Crown Prince Faisal, the third son of King Abdulaziz Al Saud, founded the Muslim World League during the meeting of the general Islamic Conference on May 18, 1962, in order to fulfill his dream for an Islamic Ummah. The establishment of the MWL continued the vision of the Crown Prince to enlighten and educate the international Muslim community, which began with the founding of the Islamic University of Madinah in 1961. The Muslim World League has grown into a worldwide charity to which the Saudi Royal Family remain active donors. Ascending to the throne as King Faisal in November 1964, the Saudi leader remained steadfast in his faith, proclaiming: “I beg of you, brothers, to look upon me as both brother and servant. ‘Majesty’ is reserved to God alone and ‘the throne’ is the throne of the Heavens and Earth.” Contents VOLUME 54 | ISSUE 1 1. Month in Review Key Events for the Muslim World League from December 2019 through January 2020 ...... 4 2. Letter from the Editor Never Again .......................................................................... 8 3. Editorial Leaders The Muslim World, the Jewish Faith and the Global Community .........................12 The Holocaust, Historic Ties, and Unknown History: The Story of Diarna ..................15 Leading By Example: The Case of Acre ................................................19 4. Feature Essays A Joint Venture in the Making of History: Behind the Scenes of the Historic MWL and AJC Trip to Auschwitz ................................................................21 The Tatarska Mosque of Poland .......................................................28 5. Historical Essay The Interfaith Imperative: Intersection and Interaction ...................................33 6. Cultural Essays Dialogues of Beauty & The Power of Art: The Barenboim Said Foundation .................35 Greater Understanding for the Foundation for Ethnic Understanding ......................37 Rabbi Marc Schneier: Op-ed (Excerpts): “How Auschwitz Unified Muslims and Jews”. 38 MAKING HISTORY, MAKING PEACE: THE MUSLIM WORLD LEAGUE IN EUROPE 3 MWL in December and January We should act together to make just peace a reality for all religions, countries, people, civilizations and cultures” — H.E. Sheikh Dr. Mohammad bin Abdulkarim Al-Issa, addressing the Kabbalat Shabbat, Nozyk Synagogue, Poland, January 24, 2020. A wall of photos commemorates victims of the Holocaust at the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C. January was a highly active month for the Muslim World during the genocidal campaign of the holocaust, a League. His Excellency Sheikh Dr. Mohammad bin barbarity officially denounced by the Secretary-General in Abdulkarim Al-Issa met with Muslim scholars to discuss January 2019. As with all international engagements by the Charter of Makkah, led a senior delegation to Italy and Dr. Al-Issa, his participation in and fight for consistent in- made an historic trip to Poland, the latter on the occa- terfaith dialogue for the purpose of universal tolerance and sion of the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the death peace is rooted in a belief in the future that is informed by camps at Auschwitz-Birkenau. At that camp more than the lessons of the past. 1 million prisoners, a majority of them Jewish, perished 4 MAKING HISTORY, MAKING PEACE: THE MUSLIM WORLD LEAGUE IN EUROPE 2019 This year’s theme focused on DECEMBER 9 the intellectual responsibility The Muslim World League of scholars to make sure that honored “International Day of religious texts and academic Commemoration and Dignity interpretations of those texts are of the Victims of the Crime of not manipulated for the sake of Genocide and of the Prevention promoting extremism. “Some do of this Crime,” sponsored by the not realize the seriousness of neg- United Nations since 2015. The ative perceptions against Islam December 9 occasion is a global and therefore they do not inter- event instituted by that UN to fere in correcting them,” said Dr. commemorate victims of geno- Al-Issa of this profound problem cide and highlighting humanity’s of ‘perception’ at the basis of all responsibility to prevent future prejudice. genocides. On the occasion, His As an Evangelical and an Israeli citizen, His Excellency Dr. Al-Issa welcomes Muslim I’m very encouraged that my friend, scholars ot the Charter of Makkah Conference in January 2020. Saudi Sheikh Mohammed al-Issa — Leading Muslim scholars arrive at the Charter of Makkah Conference hosted by the Muslim World head of the Muslim World League League in January 2020. — will visit the Auschwitz Museum in the solutions, but together we just Poland...This is an historic moment of might. faith diplomacy” 2020 JANUARY 7 — Author, scholar and interfaith activist Joel C. Rosenberg This week, the Muslim World League Supreme Council began Excellency Sheikh Dr. Mohammad DECEMBER 20 its annual meeting in Makkah. bin Abdulkarim Al-Issa, Secretary Under United Nations auspices, Muslim scholars from around the General of the Muslim World today celebrated “International world attended the conference to League, reiterated his timeless Human Solidarity Day,” intended discuss the Charter signed last message: To defeat hate, we must to honor the common core values May and other efforts to promote speak and listen ot one another, of all peoples the world over, re- peace, tolerance and cultural har- learn from one another and strive gardless of nation, ethnicity, race, mony, with the Supreme Council for unity.” religion and economic differenc- itself organized to emphasize es. As Dr. Al-Issa stated earlier in “cooperation, coexistence and DECEMBER 9-12 2019 at the Responsible Leaders love among all peoples through H.E. Sheikh Dr. Al-Issa was hon- Summit held at the UN Secretariat observance of Charter principles.” ored at the sixth annual ‘Forum in New York: “It is going to take These Council meetings, intended for the Promotion of Peace leadership at all levels to change to maintain a diligent observation Among Muslims’ in Abu Dhabi. the world. No one of us has all of the Charter’s implementation MAKING HISTORY, MAKING PEACE: THE MUSLIM WORLD LEAGUE IN EUROPE 5 worldwide, are summed up by the Arabic and Hebrew. MWL’s belief that “dialogue is the It is a sign that most effective tool for building JANUARY 24 respectful & harmonious relation- H.E. Dr. Al-Issa and Muslim digni- maybe religions are ships with others”. taries began the day with a visit to the Polin Museum of the History not that different and JANUARY 15-17 of the Jews in Warsaw. They later Starting off the week, H.E. Dr. Al-Is- visited the Nożyk Synagogue in instead of dividing sa visited the Università Cattolica the Polish capital, greeted upon people, they should in Milan for a meeting on inter- their arrival by Chief Rabbi Mi- faith dialogue. Later in the week, chael Schudrich and other Jewish unite people.” the Secretary General visited the leaders this afternoon to attend historic Ambrosian Library, Milan. Kabbalat Shabbat services at the — Students at the Università founded by the great humanist synagogue, the only surviving and scholar Cardinal Federico in pre-WWII Jewish place of wor- Cattolica, Milan, upon the closing 1609. The Cardinal dedicated the ship in the Polish capital. In his of an address given there by H.E. space to multicultural learning, address there, Dr. Al-Issa stated: Dr. Al-Issa with an emphasis on dialogue and “We should act together to make learning from other cultures and just peace a reality for all religions, faiths. countries, people, civilizations, and cultures.” JANUARY 23 “History in the making,” in the While at Nożyk, Dr. Al-Issa was words of the American Jewish presented with a gift by the AJC in Committee (AJC). H.E. Dr. Al-Issa appreciation of his efforts to pro- becomes the most senior Islamic mote interfaith solidarity, under- figure to date to visit the memorial standing and harmonious co-exis- at Auschwitz, which during World tence. To commemorate Al-Issa’s War II was the site of what is forward-looking leadership, AJC commonly regarded as the worst President Harriet Schleifer industrial genocide campaign history. A delegation of 62 representa- tives, including 25 prominent religious leaders, from 28 coun- tries lead by Dr. Al-Issa, together with the Global Delegation of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), visited the site to mark 75 years since liberation of that German Nazi-led camp, officially Dr. Al-Issa visits with the Catholic University of the commemorated on January 27. Sacred Heart leadership in Milan before giving a Dr. Al-Issa lit a candle at the Wall lecture for students and faculty on the importance of Executions in memory of all of interreligious dialogue. those killed there, a number esti- Dr. Al-Issa attends Kabbalat Shabbat Services at the Dr. Al-Issa views some of the oldest manuscripts mated in the thousands. The two Nożyk Synagogue in Warsaw, sharing a powerful on display at the Ambrosian Library in Milan. delegations led prayer services in message of interfaith understanding. 6 MAKING HISTORY, MAKING PEACE: THE MUSLIM WORLD LEAGUE IN EUROPE We are different, but we love one another. We are different, but we live alongside one another. We are different, but we understand one anohter. We are different, but we forgive one another.” — His Excellency Sheikh Dr. Mohammad Al-Issa presented, during an interfaith Mosque in Warsaw. Dr. Al-Issa ad- program at the Nożyk Synagogue, dressed both Muslim and Jewish an artwork with the injunction “to attendees at the Friday services, remember” in Hebrew, Arabic, and stating, as quoted by Al-Arabiya: English. “We’ve come here as a high-level Islamic delegation comprising Later, the two delegations shared of senior Muslim scholars from a Shabbat meal together.
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